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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by kitsunesoba on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:59PM (#26678095)
Not sure how GNOME's preview feature is written, but macOS QuickLook plugins are written in C, C++, or Objective-C and the plugins included with the OS leverage OpenCL (or maybe Metal now) to accelerate rendering of previews, which is part of why it's so fast.
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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by spacemanmatt on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:21AM (#26678972)
<SecurityHat> > plugins written in C, C++, ...

no, thank you </SecurityHat>

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